THOULESS TEST FOR SURVIVAL - FAILURES AND CLAIMS

This paper describes how one of parapsychology's most critical thinker s, Robert H. Thouless, devised an ingenious test of survival and left two enciphered messages that he believed unbreakable and whose secret keys he planned to communicate after his death as proof of his postmor tem survival. it details attempts to obtain his keys before and after his death and the implications of negative results. It provides a repo rt from a cipher expert who claims to have discovered Thouless's keywo rds and to have broken one of his messages. The paper concludes by rai sing the question of false keys.